Twelve Killed at Showing of The Dark Knight Rises

Clickonline writes: "At least 12 people have been killed and up to 40 others were injured in a shooting attack at the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, near Denver, Colorado. It is believed that two shooters were involved in the attack. One suspect has been detained, and the FBI are on the scene to co-ordinate the hunt for the second man. It has also been reported that one explosive device was set off, but a bomb squad is currently on site as a secondary device has possibly been found in the parking lot."

Your first paragraph I disagree with. I own a bunch of guns - I hunt, skeet shoot, and just go to the gun range to get a couple of round off on the weekend. I can say that no one would be able to instinctively pull out their gun - in the midst of shock and terror, with tear gas all around you, and people running everywhere - and successfully shoot the guy without putting anyone else in harm. It just doesn't work like that...

Your second paragraph is right though. Anyone that wants to harm someone could easily get a gun - no matter what law is in place. Gun laws would do nothing. To add to that though, this incident is not an issue about gun restriction - it's an issue with mental health of citizens. What caused this man to walk into a theater, shoot a bunch of innocent people, and then just wait for cops to arrest him? Where were the people that should have seen his mental imbalance and try to help before something like this happened?

Proper training is the only thing missing. If we had more readily available training things for people interested in buying guns, then tables would indeed get turned.

You can't say a person defending themselves would put people in more danger....they were all in danger no matter what. I'd prefer someone next to me shooting back any day of the week....plus your example to me relates to someone new to guns. Whos to say its not someone that has had a gun for years?

Its just like carrying a knife. If I feel threatened at all walking around, my first instinct is to reach into my pocket and hold my pocket knife in my hand....If I had the money, I'd gladly already own a hand gun and have a concealed weapons permit, and be at the range getting comfortable with it as much as possible.

No not everyone needs a gun, no not everyone is trust worthy with it, and yes some people would panic and not think to use it properly, but I'm saying including training with it would help a ton. To me, my first instinct would be to protect my girlfriend at any cost.

=========== On your second note, I want to look it up, but there was a show on the science channel about how the brain works. It talked about how people "become" or are "born" psychopaths. Basically they have absolutely no emotional ties to anything. They interviewed a guy that said he needs constant reminded that something is bad, and even openly admitted if he were to kill someone, he wouldn't care at all. Said it does scare him, because he gets the thoughts, but keeps it under control.

edit; Also don't get me wrong, my thoughts and prayers go out to all the ones involved, and I'm not attacking your opinion at all either.

@rufustheking, yeah but at least with a knife they have to get close; an you have a reasonable chance of being able to avert being stabbed, especially if you've done self defence of some kind to a reasonable level, but you can't dodge bullets, well you could try to get out of the way but you couldn't literally dodge them; hell it's easier to move out of the way of a car than a bullet due to it's size and speed, either way it's a shame we have to hear/watch out for these nutjobs who seem to feel they can kill people out to enjoy themselves just because they feel like it

See you are thinking the nutjobs would go around screaming and weilding a knife and you would see him coming be able to do something about it. I'd say they wouldn't give you a chance and stab you in the neck randomly on the street and run off stabbing other people.

The thing the pisses me off about this whole thing now is that some people are blaming the batman films and the comics for causing this. the media cause people like this, cause all they are after is the fame for going on killing sprees and the media want a nice juicy story to show.

Lord_Sloth you realise the guy that did the shooting bought all the guns he had and used legally right? So more anti gun laws and it would've been harder for him to posses multiple pistols, a rifle etc and the police might've noticed he'd purchased them on the black market or whatever... Also these things are fairly rare but here in England we have very strict gun laws and ok there's a size difference in terms of number of people so that could effect how likely it is to get the one nutter willing to go out to kill people, but these sort of things do seem to happen less in countries with stricter gun laws, because as I say someone stockpiling firearms like those becomes more noticeable.

Well apparently he called himself the Joker to police. The guy's just a nut. Every news source is goin to have something to say about the incident and it will become political regarding gun laws. When in the end people like this guy will still get guns illegally. And the regular citizens will have no means of defense.

I agree, especially since elections are coming up. Sick people like this guy will always find a way to get their hands on a gun, any bans on guns will only stir useless debates surrounding this tragedy.

Sad story, i pray that one day, an american predident wll have the courage to Ban selling guns. It will make life much safer gor the public. Stop the multi billion dollar lobby making money on peoples life.